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  1. 017 Tracks (Detail nicht öffentlich); Feature Ruth Schepers (Flöte) auf Track 1 und 6
Die Wildnis
10. Juni 2022Released
XJM22005

Hollmann/Deufel

Die Wildnis

Digital · XJM22005

Oleg Hollmann and Sebastian Deufel are the minds behind „Die Wildnis“ („the wilderness“). The sound of the Berlin duo is founded on the restriction to two main instruments — baritone saxophone and drums — yet unfolds through the full expressive means of the recording studio. Between these opposing poles, the heavy mass of sound is cast into shape over the album's seven tracks, while the collaboration with multi-instrumentalist Ruth Schepers, who adds flute on two tracks, lends a metallic sheen. Both the musical frugality and the context make this a political album. Recorded at Studio Wong in Berlin-Kreuzberg in the winter of 2021/2022, it asks what it means to make music in times of war. Sarcasm, silence, excess and the feeling of shock condense into seven pieces of song, chaos, harshness, melancholy and cynicism — a dark work about creating art while the world faces war.

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Hollmann/Deufel

Jazz / Experimental / Improvisation

Hollmann/Deufel

Berlin duo of baritone saxophone and drums whose album "Die Wildnis" is sparse, studio-driven and political.

Behind the album "Die Wildnis" are Oleg Hollmann and Sebastian Deufel. The Berlin duo's sound is founded on the restriction to two main instruments — baritone saxophone and drums — yet unfolds through the full expressive range of the recording studio. The collaboration with multi-instrumentalist Ruth Schepers lends the album's seven tracks a metallic sheen. Both its musical frugality and its context make "Die Wildnis" a political album moving between chaos, anarchy, abstract constraint, pointless freedom, harshness, melancholy and cynicism.